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Title: The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Subjects: Leghorn chicken
Publisher: Quincy, IL : Reliable poultry journal Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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e, Buff and Black Leghorns: I consider the cut the best, in shape, of any cut I ever saw, but for an ideal cutI consider the leg a trifle short and shanks rather too heavy.The comb is fine, but is just a trifle large, and first point istoo far forward, giving the comb too square an appearancein front. M. Mayer, Jr., Illinois, breeder of Buff and Single CombBrown Leghorns: If the legs were a little longer this cutwould come nearer to my ideal of a male Leghorn than Ihave ever seen on paper or in the show room. H. A. Kuhns, Georgia, breeder of Single Comb BrownLeghorns: This cut is so near my ideal that I will notundertake to criticise it. J. D. Hunt, Tennessee, breeder of Single Comb BrownLeghorns: The cut of Brown Leghorn is beyond my crit-icism. It is simply superb. Ed Hoffman, Ohio, breeder of Buff Leghorns: I thinkit an excellent cut of a Leghorn male, with a few excep-tions. Neck is too much arched, breast a trifle flat, and Iwould prefer to see the wing carried more horizontally.
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LEGHORN FEMALE SHAPE—BY SEWELL. Comprising tbe Best Points of Several Live Models, as Illustrated by Franklane L. Sewell for the Reliable Poultry Journal, andSubmitted to Fifty-five Prominent Judges and Breeders for Criticism Based Upon Standard Requirements. LEGHORN FEMALE SHAPE. Criticisms of Foremost Judges and Leghorn Breeders on a Composite Ideal from Live Models, as Drawn byFranklane L. Sewell—A Collection of Opinions That Are In Themselves Authority, on the Ideal Shape of a Standard-bred Leghorn. from the Reliable Poultry Journal. OWING to the fact that we were obliged to submitthe proofs of the ideal male and female Leghorndrawings to the judges and breeders at differenttimes, we were unable, from various causes, toreach as many with the female drawing as we did with thatof the male, still we are able to present the comments offifty-five well-known judges and breeders. We are highlypleased with the interest manifested in these ideal drawingsand in common with many of our r

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